| Christopher Anderson - Christian life - 1847 - 500 pages
...night, and perished in a night : and should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand ; and also muck cattle 1" Here was a man, who had been sent by the Lord God of the Hebrews,... | |
| 1847 - 548 pages
...area occupied, like that which belongs to our modern cities. Of this we have indisputable evidence. " Six score thousand persons, that cannot discern between their right hand and their left haud," are mentioned among its inhabitants — a proverbial expression ior young children. Following... | |
| Robert Wilson Evans - Bible - 1848 - 356 pages
...perished in a night : and should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six-score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left; and also much cattle?" As much as to say, If you see good reason why this trifling gourd should be spared, and can be thus... | |
| Christopher Anderson - Domestic relations - 1848 - 432 pages
...night, and perished in a night : and should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand ; and also muck cattle ?" Here was a man, who had been sent by the Lord God of the Hebrews,... | |
| Christian education - 1849 - 698 pages
...exceeding great eity of three daye' journey" — "that great eity, wherein are more than sixscore thonsand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left, and also much cattle." The prophet Nabum, who prophesicd abont 150 years later than Jonah, had a "burden of Nineveh" to deliver.... | |
| Mary Fawler Maude - 1849 - 498 pages
...— 5. " Then said the Lord . . . Should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand ; and also much cattle ?" — Jonah iv. 10, 1 1. " The burden of Nineveh" — Nahum i. 1.—... | |
| Christian life - 1840 - 556 pages
...night, and perished in a night: and should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle? " The margin reads, "Sparest the gourd," the meaning obviously is... | |
| John Charles Ryle (bp. of Liverpool.) - 1850 - 288 pages
...to God, and God heard their cry. "Shall I not spare Nineveh that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between...right hand and their left; and also MUCH CATTLE." (Jonah iv. 11.) — The character of God Himself makes it folly not to pray. "He does not afflict willingly."... | |
| Morning call - 1850 - 612 pages
...should be overthrown in forty days. " Should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons, that cannot discern between...right hand and their left, and also much cattle." — Jonah, iv., 11. This city, compared to which, sacred and venerable as it is by its alliance with... | |
| Robert Montgomery - 1850 - 456 pages
...arguments for divine placability : " Should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand ? " (Jonah, iv. 11.) After reading this, what heart can be so impiously cold and sceptical,... | |
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